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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Infamy Speech
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“ With confidence in our armed forces - with the unbounding determination of our people - we will gain the inevitable triumph - so help us God” Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Infamy Speech, presented on December 8, 1941.(“ Day of”) How many people daily think about the 32nd president of our nation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Goodwin)? He served the longest term as President; four two-year terms, was diagnosed with polio, and helped guide our nation through the world altering crisis of the Great Depression and World War Two. Franklin Roosevelt was a great man who empowered the American people to keep hope during the Great Depression, stand strong in World War Two, and until his dying day believed in this nation. We
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Even before America was involved in the war Roosevelt helped the British in their fight. In 1941 he signed the Lend- lease Agreement that stated that we would give war aid to countries that we were allied with for reimbursement later ( Goodwin) . We not only funded countries with “ credits” but with guns, ammunition and other supplies. Roosevelt's “war campaign” was very much different from what you think of when that phrase comes to mind. His main involvement was in peace campaigns, including the Atlantic Charter which include things about how countries would be run after the war ( Goodwin) . He made several speeches about freedoms and rights all people deserve, for example his Four Freedoms Speech( January 6 1941) which was about the rights all people deserved(Anderson). Roosevelt's most famous speech was the Infamy Speech delivered on December 8, 1941 the day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This speech was a powerful message to the world that showed what being American meant and what we would do to protect our values. This speach told the axis powers( the Naizs and there allies) that we where coming full force, to defend the freedoms that all people

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